Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.